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F a lost contact with the plane only 15 minutes after it took off from tennessee. ultimately, it went down in rural virginia which we are told ultimately kill the pilot at all three passengers who were on board. joining us now is solidly saw lindberg or, the former u.s. ambassador to the u.s. civil aviation association. and of course more well-known by many, he was at the helm of the u.s. airways flight 15 49 which safely landed on the hudson river in new york. so the person to be speaker tonight, ambassador when here this new information is coming out, including from the faa that they lost co...

Investigation and made public their findings. but this kind of an incident, this accident has the air marks of a loss of cabin pressurization. being a likely factor. >> if that is what happened here, you know, there have been questions about hypoxia and if there was explosive decompression as we were hearing from experts earlier. whether or not of mitigation beforehand that something was wrong? >> well one of the things the investigators will hope to find out, and this aircraft probably was not equipped with a cockpit voice recorder or a digital flight data recorder, depending on looking at th...

Oxygen masks suddenly dropping. during the terrifying moments. pilots putting the plane into a controlled descent into the middle of all this, as they tried to figure out what was happening. abc's david kerley covers aviation. >> reporter: these delta passengers say tonight they didn't know why their jet was suddenly losing altitude. >> initially, it was sort of a panic. and there wasn't really any forewarning. it was really just the oxygen masks dropped down. >> reporter: oxygen masks mean cabin pressurization problems. some of the frightened passengers texting their loved ones. delta says th...

Most jetliner doors mechanically seal against the fuselage. and during flight, the cabin pressurization pushes against the door, pressure making it humanly impossible to open that door. the passenger who was taken off the aircraft was not arrested. and while the fbi is looking at the case, no charges have been filed. david. >> david, thank you. when we come back, johnson & johnson facing a massive payout for a lawsuit involving a common household ingredient and possible cancer risks. also the fiery crash landing in the street. the plane bursting into flames. and that deadly earthquake ov...

Seconds to get it back down to where you have better air and more oxygen and to use your alternate source of oxygen before you essentially pass out. the loss of cabin pressurization still very much at play among the other things that could have happened. >> the cockpit voice recorder is going to be huge. >> very telling. >> hope that works. the u.s. army plans to charge sergeant bergdahl with desertion among other things but there are a lot of things we do not yet know, among them, the details of his disappearance. do they know what his plan was? how helpful has he been snt military spent mo...